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Late Shridhar Keshav Vaidya Open International Tating Tournament

Year        Winner                                            State / City
1968    K.D. Pillai                                     Orissa / Bhuvaneshwar.
1969    Mahammad Hassan                      A. P. / Hyderabad.
1970    M. Aaron                                      Tamilnadu / Madras.
1971    M. Aaron                                      Tamilnadu / Madras.
1972    Mohan Babur                                Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1973    Mahammad Hassan                     A. P. / Hyderabad.1974
1975    Abdul Jabbar                                Maharashtra / Nagpur.
1976    Raja Ravikumar                            Tamilnadu / Madras.
1977    Raja Ravikumar                            Tamilnadu / Madras.
1978    R. Ravikumar                               Tamilnadu / Madras.
1979    T. N. Parmeshwaran                     Tamilnadu / Madras.
1980    Vinayak Ghate                             Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1981    Shekhar Sahu                              Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1982    Pravin Thipse                               Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1983    P. S. Mohanti                               Orissa.
1984    A. Mujumdar                                 Delhi.
1985    Sajjandas Joshi                            Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1986    Pravin Thipse                               Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1987    Ravi Hegde                                   Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1988    N. Sudhakar Babu                        Tamilnadu / Chennai
1989    Lanka Ravi                                  Tamilnadu.
1990    Hari Om Sharma                          Delhi.
1991    Jayant Gokhle                             Maharashtra / Pune.
1992    Ravi Hegde                                  Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1993    Kiran Panditrao                            Maharashtra / Pune.
1994   Anup Deshmukh                           Maharashtra / Nagpur.
1995   Jayant Gokhale                             Maharashtra / Pune.
1996    Pravin Thipse                               Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1997    Rahul Shetty                                Maharashtra / Mumbai.
1998    N. Sudhakar Babu                       Tamilnadu / Chennai.
1999    N. Sudhakar Babu                       Tamilnadu / Chennai.
2000    R. Balasubrmaniam                      Tamilnadu.
2001    Chandrashekhar Gokhale             Maharashtra / Pune.